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‘‘Twas A Lot About The Cookies

Christmas Eve- cookies for Santa. 

My 10 year old still participates in Santa musings and the elf… 

This year our elf has found a friend… so two elves move independently until they decided to move together? Lol … 

I had fun with elving around this year. Unfortunately I bet most of my cookies hit the trash before they had a chance of being eaten. I’m sure due to COVID-19 most of my neighbors probably were reluctant to eat them… I totally understand that! I so wanted to keep within my yearly tradition of sharing cookies with my neighbors. Maybe I should have just given them a bottle of wine? 

Sugar Cookies 

Gingersnaps

Assorted Shortbread

Oatmeal Peanut Butter 

Jam Thumbprint Cookies with Cherry jam

Pretzel reindeer and chocolate shortbread cookies 

Cookie plates that I gave to neighbors…

I put together 6 plates…

Amelia had some fun decorating cookies as well! She did a fine job for her first time! 

Amelia’s first Sugar Cookie effort… 

After all of the elfing, we had Christmas…

The calm and relaxation after Christmas. It should be relaxing but is it??? Lol! 

Here’s hoping that 2021 brings a better outlook. I look forward to new peace that will hopefully prevail! When a sneeze, is just a sneeze… May we nix Covid-19 and the fear/anxiety that surrounds this awful virus!

 tynajoymetzner

Easy To Make Holiday Black Forest Cake

I baked a two layer chocolate cake from a mix. I added a nice healthy layer of chocolate frosting between the layers. On top of the frosting I spread half of a can of canned cherries. Stopping about 1/2 inch from the edge of the layer all the way around. 

I frosted my cake with whipped topping frosting. It holds up better than just whipped topping. My local grocery store has this frosting in the bakery dept. 

Whipped topping frosting spread neatly, I spooned the remaining canned cherries in a circle to the center of the cake. I piped borders of whipped topping around the center. I placed maraschino cherries evenly around the cake within the piped border. With a teaspoon, I drizzled melted Candy quick chocolate. It hardens well for an unexpected little crunch… 
I added a few decorative Christmas sprinkles around, piped a small circle of whipped frosting in the center of the cake topping it with one last stemmed maraschino cherry. 

Finished Black Forest Cake

This is a easy showstopper holiday dessert cake. It tastes better than it looks as it isn’t too sweet! My guests loved this cake and I was so proud to share it. I’m a homemaker, not a pro baker by any stretch… Fun and didn’t take the whole day! 

I had time to bake some cookies as well!

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